It has a touchscreen, which guarantees it is one of those Multiple parlor game / card game type machines. You know, the ones that don't count as videogames but they put them in bars so that people without enough money to actually gamble can pretend to do so.

I've seen a lot of these games... I do believe it is the "Touch Master 5000" (possibly the 3000?) from Midway. It has a variety of games built into it. One of the best games on it is Quiz Wiz. Well worth the 25c. And if you get the top score, you get a free game. You'll find card games like solitaire, word games, chess, checkers, and weird mini-games...

I don't believe it's emulated... which is a shame, there aren't enough cool quiz games in English to play

I actually looked briefly into trying to emulate one of those systems - it is basically a standard X86-based PC, IIRC. So it is potentially really easy to emulate, though I am pretty sure stuff like MAME is actually very poorly equipped to do just that (though it is probably getting better). Might have some very tricky protection, however - other PC-based games (like Raiden Fighters series) certainly do, probably because the hardware is so easy to get.

I'm a bit shocked the Raiden Fighters series ran off a 386... I don't see how they did it... considering it's leaps and bounds above any shooter I've ever seen on PC from that era. (anyone remember Kaeon or that shmup from Apogee?)

MAME won't emulate these kind of games because there's no emulation necessary; it's already running on x86. So it ends up being just plain old piracy to run the quiz games on your home PC. Also, there's some encryption involved via a card on some. There was a discussion about this a while back on alt.games.mame, and the consensus was that it wouldn't be emulation at all.

Snyder's Hot Buffalo Wing Potato Chips. Holy Christ. It's like they took a bunch of regular ridged chips, wiped 'em along the sides of long discarded Domino's Pizza buffalo wing boxes, sacked 'em up and shipped 'em into the stomachs of unsuspecting chicken and potato fans nationwide. Most people would have a hard enough time picturing a chicken-flavored potato chip that sounds remotely palatable, but even if you can, it's not this.

I, too, have come across these, and at my old high school at that. However,

I remember the local delicacy when I lived in a town in Kent in England for a while.

Imagine a small pack of Cheese and Onion potato chips (crisps as they are called locally)...

Imagine a pickled egg from a jar of pickled eggs...

Imagine opening the pack of chips, throwing a pickled egg in the bag, holding the bag closed in one hand and proceeding to squish the egg and chips between your fingers for a minute to get the whole thing nice and mushy...

On vacation in Delaware last year, I discovered Old Bay Seasoning potato chips [taquitos.net]. They were prominently displayed at supermarkets and convenience stores everywhere I went in the DelMarVa region--and lots of the seafood places I ate at also used this seasoning. The chips were pretty good, although it looked like someone had just taken a bag of regular potato chips and dumped a pound of paprika in it. They were strangely addictive, but also off-putting: after a few handfuls you had to stop eating them or risk t

They have these in the vending machines where I work. Honestly, I don't think they are that bad. Then again when I'm in the break room I smoke three 100 cigarettes in about ten mins, so my tastes might not be spot on, y'know?

I liked the buffalo wing potato chips. Then again, I like things that are really spicy. A friend of mine who also tried them called them Potato Harbingers of Painful Death. I don't think he cared for the spice. My favorite weird little chips are the Steak & Onion flavored chips, I think they're made by Tom's.

When I saw the headline, I remembered the worst FPS I've ever tried; In Pursuit of Greed [softdisk.com] - the color scheme and 3D engine somehow worked together to create a nauseating experience. I actually had to stop playing the demo because I got physically ill from looking at it!

Wtf? I don't even know General Mills. I'm from Denmark* - but from the looks of the screenshots, the game wasn't physically challenging, just aesthetically unpleasing.

- You might think I'm just exaggerating to get my point across, but I did *literally* get nauseated. I tried to keep playing for a while, the little nerd that I was (I'm not little anymore), but it overcame me. The music was ok, though...

* (The Kingdom of Denmark doesn't officially have any military but our "Defense" - yet we've invaded a co

We perhaps still need some way to signify this, but fortunately for Matt, this isn't a mainpage Slashdotting, but a games-sectional Slashdotting, which is more like a breakfast kipper to the face than a large fish slapping you into a canal, if you get my Python-esque drift.

My parents are both postal workers. One day I was vititing them and noticed that they had some arcade machines in the break room. One was a shooting game. The poor trigger had been worn down to a nub from all the people playing constantly, shooting villans and innocents on the game.

nah. That's not totally true but it would have been hilarious if it was.

Ok, after reading this older article [slashdot.org] and FINALLY training my eyes to see those goofy 3d images that people used to look at endlessly in the malls (which are actually kinda cool, I must say) - I was trying to look at the image from this article [peel.com] (the one in this story) and I think I just blew both eye-gaskets. I thought I saw something form in the middle of the image, but it turned out to be a 1/3 block of "TV STATIC".

Yes, I went to Funworld. It used to be the best arcade. It was there before the arcade boom and survived the arcade bust. Sadly, it has morphed into a chuck-e-cheese clone. I imagine they had to do that to survive.

"When I was a kid..." Funworld always had the latest games. They used to put the newest games up front and center when you walked in the door. I still remember when they got the first pinball machine that talked. It was "Gorgar" or something like that. That was bleeding edge technology b

Used to be my hometown had an arcade. A real one. People lining up, putting their tokens on the screen to play the next round of Street Fighter. The works. There were several pinball machines, mini golf, and Lazer Tag upstairs.

Those days are gone. There's a Staples there now.

Some of the games from that arcade made it into a back room at our local ghetto mall along with an assortment of kiddie rides. The result is called "Ride-A-Rama" and it looks like all that equipment was set up there and promptly negle

I started university over here in the UK In '94, and my hall of residence's bar had various pinball tables over the five years I was there, including the World Cup '94 one, it was possibly the most fun I've ever had with a set of flippers and a little metal ball.

The great thing about it was that it was designed in the States, the one nation on earth that doesn't get football. It showed.

At no point in playing this table did any of the bonuses, options or 'rounds' bear any resemblance to real football term